Guidance

Local authority delivery support funding

Delivery support funding for financial year 2023 to 2024 to support local authorities meet costs associated with rolling out the expanded early year entitlements.

Applies to England

Documents

Local authority allocations

Details

The delivery support funding grant is provided to local authorities to support with meeting programme and delivery costs associated with rolling out the expanded early years entitlements.

The allocations table shows how much funding has been allocated to each local authority.

The grant determination letter sets out the allocations methodology and conditions of the grant payments.

Local authorities are required to comply with Department for Education (DfE) grant assurance processes by submitting an end of year financial statement of grant usage document by 29 April 2024.

Programme funding has also been provided through the childcare expansion capital grants for early years entitlements and the national wraparound programme grant funding.

Updates to this page

Published 9 February 2024
Last updated 14 February 2024 + show all updates
  1. 'Local authority allocations' document updated to correct allocation amounts for Cambridgeshire and Central Bedfordshire.

  2. First published.

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